Lot Essay
“Take a closer look at Miffy, she is smart, sophisticated, kind, and witty…Miffy is like a self-portrait of mine, so mysterious.” - Liu Ye
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I am a Painter
Details
LIU YE (B. 1964)
I am a Painter
signed in Chinese; signed and dated ‘07 Liu Ye’ (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
59.5 x 45 cm. (23 5⁄8 x 17 3⁄4 in.)
Painted in 2007
I am a Painter
signed in Chinese; signed and dated ‘07 Liu Ye’ (lower left)
acrylic on canvas
59.5 x 45 cm. (23 5⁄8 x 17 3⁄4 in.)
Painted in 2007
Provenance
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Helge Achenbach Collection, Dusseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Helge Achenbach Collection, Dusseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Zhu Zhu, Double Fascination, Contemporary Art & Investment, January, 2008 (illustrated, p. 68).
Sperone Westwater Gallery, Liu Ye: Leave Me in the Dark, exh. cat., New York, 2009 (illustrated, p. 47).
Christoph Noe (ed.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Liu Ye Catalogue Raisonné 1991-2015, Ostfildern, 2015 (illustrated, p.331).
Sperone Westwater Gallery, Liu Ye: Leave Me in the Dark, exh. cat., New York, 2009 (illustrated, p. 47).
Christoph Noe (ed.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Liu Ye Catalogue Raisonné 1991-2015, Ostfildern, 2015 (illustrated, p.331).
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Infatuation, 2007.
Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, China: Facing Reality, October 2007 – February 2008.
Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, China: Facing Reality, October 2007 – February 2008.
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